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CONTENTS
Teachers Notes for each unit – two pages for each unit,
providing list focus, dictation, word building, additional
activities and answers.
Unit 1 – er, re, or, ar, our..........................................40–41

Unit 2 – trans-, tele-, auto-, anti- ..............................42–43
Unit 3 – au, augh, ough ..........................................44–45
Unit 4 – Singular and Plural Nouns ...........................46–47
Unit 5 – Long Vowels ..............................................48–49
Unit 6 – oo, ew, ou, ue, ui .......................................50–51
Unit 7 – Christmas ..................................................52–53
Unit 8 – Compound Words.......................................54–55
Unit 9 – -ine, -ise, -ice, -ite, -ive ...............................56–57
Unit 10 – ue, ew, iew, eau, eue ................................58–59
Unit 11 – Silent Letters .............................................60–61
Unit 12 – al-, wel-, -til, -ful ......................................62–63
Unit 13 – Spring/Easter ............................................64–65
Unit 14 – sh, ti, si, ssi, ci.........................................66–67
Unit 15 – -able, -ible ...............................................68–69
Unit 16 – -ious, -ous ...............................................70–71
Unit 17 – -se, -ce, -o...............................................72–73
Unit 18 – Summer...................................................74–75
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Unit 1 er‚ re‚ or‚ ar‚ our
List Words Word Building Unit Focus
winner winners, win, wins, won, winning, winningly, winningness

• This unit focuses on the graphemes ‘er’,
‘re’, ‘or’ ‘ar’ and ‘our’ to represent a
writer writers, write, writes, written, wrote, writing sound (phoneme).
partners, partnered, partnering, partnership, partnerships, • This unit also includes two common,
partner
partnerless high frequency words, ‘diamond’ and
officer officers ‘definitely’.
discovers, discovering, discovered, discoverable,
discover
discoverer, discovery, discoveries Teaching Points
centres, centred, centring, central, centralise/centralize,
centre • Identify the phoneme and how it is
centralising/centralizing, centralised/centralized
represented.
fibre fibres, fibred, fibreless, fibrous, fibrously, fibrousness
• Discuss any difficult parts of words.
theatre theatres, theatregoer, theatric, theatrical, theatrically • Sort the list words to the graphemes and
mirror mirrors, mirroring, mirrored brainstorm other words to add to each
list.
calculators, calculate, calculates, calculating, calculated,
calculator
calculation, calculative
Rules
actor actors
• Double the consonant to keep the
tutors, tutoring, tutored, tutorless, tutorship, tutorage,
tutor preceding vowel sound short.
tutorial
• The ‘y’ at the end of base words
cellar cellars, cellaring, cellared, cellarage
changes to ‘i’ when a suffix is added.
dollar dollars • When adding a suffix beginning with a
popularise/popularize, popularises/popularizes, vowel to most words ending with ‘e’,
popular popularising/popularizing, popularised/popularized, the ‘e’ is dropped before adding the
popularity, popularly suffix.
particulars, particularise/particularize, particularising/ • With words ending in ‘our’ and ‘ous’,
particular particularizing, particularised/particularized, particularity, drop the ‘u’ before adding the suffixes
particularly ‘ous’, ‘ious’ or ‘ity’.
humours, humouring, humoured, humourless, humorous,
humour
humorously
labours, labouring, laboured, labourer, laborious, Dictation
labour
laboriously
1. The cafe at the harbour, with the huge
harbour harbours, harbouring, harboured, harbourer, harbourless
mirror hanging on the back wall, serves
flavours, flavouring, flavoured, flavourer, flavourless, the best ice-cream. My favourite flavour
flavour
flavoursome is definitely chocolate.
diamond diamonds, diamonding, diamonded 2. I still use a calculator to add up, even
definitely definite, definiteness though I had a maths tutor all year.
However I was the winner of the English
Revision Words Word Building prize so, as I love humour, I would love
giant giants, giantess to become a comedy writer.
energies, energetic, energetically, energise/energize, 3. It was very hard labour for the workers,
energy
energised/energized, energising/energizing who spent all day down in the diamond
lounge lounges, lounged, lounging mine and were only paid a dollar an
hour.
figures, figuring, figured, figurative, figuratively,
figure 4. ‘How did they discover who had
figurehead, figureheads
arranges, arranged, arranging, arrangement, arranger, murdered the woman found in the
arrange cellar?’ asked the officer. ‘Our police
rearrange
department found a particular fibre of
hydrogen
material which matched the jacket worn
gyms, gymnasium, gymnasiums, gymnast, gymnasts, by the accused man,’ said his partner.
gym
gymnastic, gymnastics
5. He is such a popular actor that the play
change changes, changed, changing, changer, changeable was quickly sold out, but we managed
near nearer, nearest; nears, nearing, neared; nearby, nearly to book great seats right in the centre of
the theatre.
between
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er‚ re‚ or‚ ar‚ our Unit 1
Answers
1. (a) officer 4. (a) win, won, winning 9. (a) centre
(b) flavour (b) calculate, (b) giant
(c) tutor calculated, (c) particular
(d) diamond calculating
(d) popular
(e) popular (c) act, acted, acting
(e) change
(f) partner (d) part, parted, parting
(g) definitely (e) write, wrote/written,
10. (a) lounge
writing
(h) fibre (b) flavour
(i) theatre (c) figure
5. (a) definitely, arrange,
(j) particular theatre (d) energy
(b) partner, between, (e) arrange
2. (a) centre harbour
(b) definitely (c) tutor, calculator, 11. (a) calibre
(c) diamond figure (b) scrounge
(d) discover (d) actor, humour, giant (c) human
(e) dollar (d) dollop
(f) fibre 6. (a) Any form of: (e) owner
(g) flavour humour, labour,
(f) apology
harbour, flavour,
(h) harbour tutor, centre, mirror, (g) spectre
(j) humour partner, lounge,
(j) labour figure, change
(b) definitely
3. Across (c) gym
3. labour (d) energy
4. dollar
8. diamond
10. winner 7. centre, writer, winner,
11. officer dollar, harbour, mirror,
12. partner figure, giant, between
18. tutor
19. particular 8.
20. cellar
21. fibre o e d e f i n i t e l y f a l k x
Down b f g w t h e a t r e p f i u a v
1. humour r h f n l m r d s d p a l b b g i
2. flavour u j z i a q a r e n t r a p w r i
5. centre
o l i l c h j o n o e t v p i q e
6. actor
7. calculator b m a x b e c t e m g i o o s g g
8. definitely r i c b p v r a r a u c u p f v m
9. discover a r c j o v f l g i v u r u e y c
13. theatre h r h u v u s u y d v l t l g j d
14. harbour r o t u t x r c u a i a a a f i y
15. mirror
r r d w r a l l e c b r b r s w q
16. popular
17. writer e h o r o t c a r h k e z c t f e
n u l i x d z c t x t l o u n g e
n m l t q b m n n w j v y p a l b
i o a e c o e g e z e r u g i f c
w u r r l a n e c r v w s a g l l
g r a r r a n g e h y d r o g e n

Unit 2 trans-, tele-, auto-, anti-
Unit Focus
List Words Word Building
• This unit focuses on the prefixes ‘trans-’,
transports, transporting, transported,
transport ‘anti-’, ‘tele-’ and ‘auto-’. This unit also includes
transportation, transportable, transporter
two common, high frequency words, ‘fulfil’ and
transfers, transferring, transferred, transferable,
transfer ‘reference’.
transferability, transferee
transplants, transplanting, transplanted,
transplant
transplantable, transplantation, transplanter
Teaching Points
transits, transiting, transited, transition, • Discuss the meaning of each prefix.
transit
transitional, transitionary • Identify the base word for each list word, where
transmits, transmitting, transmitted, appropriate.
transmit
transmission, transmissible, transmittable • Identify any smaller words that make up each
telescopes, telescoped, telescoping, telescopic, word.
telescope
telescopical • Sort the list words according to the prefixes and
telephones, telephoning, telephoned, brainstorm to add to each list.
telephone
telephoner, telephonic
teletext Rules
telepathy telepathic, telepathically • Double the consonant to keep the preceding
telegraphs, telegraphing, telegraphed, vowel sound short.
telegraph
telegrapher, telegraphist • When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to
automate, automating, automated, most words ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’ is dropped
automatic
automatically, automation, automaticity before adding the suffix.
automate, automating, automated, • To make the plural of words ending with ‘y’ after
automation
automatically, automation, automaticity a consonant, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘es’.
autopsy autopsies, autopsied • The ‘y’ at the end of base words changes to ‘i’
autobiographies, autobiographer, when a suffix is added.
autobiography
autobiographic, autobiographical
autographs, autographic, autographical,
autograph Dictation
autographically
automobile automobiles, automobilist 1. He was on the donor list for a heart transplant
antiseptics, antiseptically, antisepticise, and today he received a telephone call to say they
antiseptic had a heart, so a transfer was arranged to the
antisepticising, antisepticised
Royal hospital for his surgery.
antidote antidotes
2. During the war my granddad needed a reference
antibiotic antibiotics from the automobile company he worked for, so
anticlockwise they had to transmit a telegraph, in order that
he could fulfil his dream. He wanted to drive
fulfil fulfils, fulfilling, fulfilled, fulfillment, fulfiller
army tanks, and be in charge of the transit of
reference references, referencing, referenced the soldiers and the transport of the automatic
Revision Words Word Building weapons.
3. The autopsy report said he died from the poison
guest guests, guestless, guestroom, guesthouse
from the snake bite as there was no antidote to
island islands, islander, islanders cure him. No antibiotic nor antiseptic had worked
climb climbs, climbed, climbing, climber, climbers so the venom had caused the infection which
killed him.
young younger, youngest, youngish, youngster
4. Reading the teletext service on the television we
white whites, whiter, whitest, whiten, whitener found out that ’Mystic Michael’ would be signing
aisles his autograph on his new autobiography. He
aisle
claims he has the gift of telepathy as he can read
sciences, scientific, scientifically, scientist, minds, but his hobby is star-gazing through his
science
scientists giant telescope.
depot depots 5. The machinery in the biscuit factory works on
horses, horseback, horsepower, horseshoe, automation but one day there was a mechanical
horse
horseshoes, horsey or horsy fault and it all went anticlockwise, so the
disc discs, disk, disks wrappers ended up in the centre of the biscuits.

trans-, tele-, auto-, anti- Unit 2
Answers
1. (a) telegraph 4. (a) (i) tele- 8.
(b) transmit (ii) auto-
u e s v i t e l e p a t h y b h s z y
(c) telescope (iii) anti- a u t o b i o g r a p h y m o r g h r
(d) autobiography (iv) trans- v b v z h w a t v v g a i e f x c o z
(e) autopsy (b) Teacher check e l i b o m o t u a a l w y c i v r q
(f) antidote (c) Teacher check p e k t i s n a r t c n f h o t x s t
(g) transport n e a u t o g r a p h o t k i u l e e
(h) automation 5. (a) There is a reference d s w p z a n t i b i o t i c t n e l
(i) antiseptic to our famous c i e p o c s e l e t u s l d t e g e
guest in the local
(j) transit v w a f q c s d i t e l e p h o n e g
newspaper.
(k) telephone k k l k j z e i j i a e l q a k t j r
(b) I hope to fulfil my
(l) antibiotic t c t e s p b t d n p u c y g g n e a
ambition soon and
(m) telepathy climb that high r o r l o h w e d l i f l u f n g s p
(n) anticlockwise mountain; or: I a l a t z j a n t i s e p t i c z k h
hope to climb that n c n s c i e n c e w t r a n s f e r
high mountain s i s e a u t o m a t i o n g f c d q
2. (a) telepathic soon and fulfil my
m t p u f i a u t o m a t i c v s f n
(b) transmission ambition.
i n o g g g s z r t x e t e l e t i l
(c) autographic
t a r c r t l l t r a n s p l a n t d
(d) telescopic 6. (a) antibiotic
a u t o p s y d e c n e r e f e r o x
(e) transportation (b) telegraph
(f) transplantation (c) young
9. Teacher check
(d) automation
3. Across
10. (a) telegraph
1. automation 7. (a) empathy
3. antiseptic (b) antidote
(b) mile
5. antibiotic (c) automobile
7. reference (c) periscope
(d) depot
8. autobiography (d) anecdote
(e) transit
10. teletext (e) guide
14. transmit (f) island
(f) gypsy
16. autopsy
17. telescope (g) depart
18. transport
19. fulfil
Down
2. anticlockwise
3. autograph
4. telegraph
5. antidote
6. telephone
9. automatic
10. transfer
11. transplant
12. transit
13. automobile
15. telepathy

Unit 3 au, augh, ough

authors, authorial, authorless, authoring, • This unit focuses on the graphemes ‘au’,
author ‘augh’ and ‘ough’ to represent a sound
authored, authoress
authorities, authorise/authorize, authorising/ (phoneme). This unit also includes
authority authorizing, authorised/authorized, authorisation/ two common, high frequency words,
authorization ‘preparation’ and ‘accidently’.
dinosaur dinosaurs, dinosaurian, dinosauric
Teaching Points
cause causes, caused, causing, causeless, causable
• Identify the phoneme and how it is
cautions, cautioning, cautioned, cautionary,
caution represented.
cautious, cautiously, cautiousness
• Discuss any difficult parts of the words.
astronauts, astronautic, astronautics,
astronaut • Sort the list words according to the
astronautical, astronautically
graphemes and brainstorm other words to
haunted haunt, haunts, haunting, haunter, hauntingly
add to each list.
launch launches, launching, launched, launcher
applaud
applauds, applauding, applauded, applauder, Rules
applause
• To many words ending with ‘f’ or ‘fe’,
exhausts, exhausting, exhausted, exhaustible,
exhaust change the ‘f’ to ‘v’ before adding the
inexhaustible, exhaustive
suffix.
laundries, launder, laundress, laundrette,
laundry • When adding a suffix beginning with a
laundromat
vowel to most words ending with ‘e’, the
caught catch, catches, catching ‘e’ is dropped before adding the suffix.
taught teach, teaches, teaching, teacher, teachable • To make the plural of words ending with
daughters, daughterly, daughter-in-law, ‘y’ after a consonant, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’
daughter and add ‘es’.
daughters-in-law, daughterliness
naughty naughtier, naughtiest, naughtily, naughtiness • The ‘y’ at the end of base words changes
to ‘i’ when a suffix is added.
ought
nought noughts
thoughtless, thoughtlessly, thoughtlessness, Dictation
thought
think, thinks, thoughts, thinking, thinker 1. Being taught every day for two months,
fought fight, fights, fighting, fighter, fightable and having three parts to play, did
exhaust my daughter and I. I had lots of
sought seek, seeks, seeking, seeker
laundry to wash each night, but we had
preparations, preparative, preparatively, to applaud the effort and hard work with
preparation
preparatory, preparatorily the success of the play.
accidentally accidental, accidentalness, accident, accidents 2. I approached, with caution, as the two
Revision Words Word Building naughty ghosts fought with each other.
To try and stop them I shouted loudly with
briefs, briefing, briefed, briefer, briefest, briefly,
brief a voice of authority but suddenly I woke
briefness
up. So don’t read “The haunted castle” by
believe believes, believing, believed, believable, believer the author Jill Duffy before falling asleep,
niece nieces and just count sheep from nought to 50
instead.
receipt receipts
3. The rocket launch had taken five years of
receive receives, receiving, received, receiver, receivers preparation so it was a cause of concern
calorie calories when, with only one week to go, the
astronaut caught the flu.
cashier cashiers
4. I had accidentally broken my brother’s
piece pieces, piecing, pieced, piecemeal toy dinosaur. Mum thought that I ought to
biscuit biscuits buy him another, so on Saturday, I sought
a similar one from a toy shop and he was
address addresses, addressing, addressed, addressable happy.

au, augh, ough Unit 3
Answers
1. (a) nought 4. (a) launches, 8.
(b) laundry launching,
launched d e h s h y r d n u a l e v q e k
(c) naughty
(b) catch, catching, b e l i e v e u k r e c e i p t v
(d) astronaut
caught y d t t t s u a h x e x y k b r d
(e) authority
(c) fight, fights, fought a t s n h y c l b i s c u i t e b
(f) taught
(d) teaches, teaching, y s h s u g s p n c t r k g t c y
(g) thought g s t g e a u p h a h e a u y e t
taught
(h) caution f g t r u r h a d s g t n u l i i
(e) think, thinks,
(i) sought thinking z f h u o a d i c h u h u c t v r
(j) ought (f) applauds, b o g o a n n d v i o g a j n e o
(k) haunted applauding, t u u m e o a f a e h u j e r i h
(l) cause applauded h g o h s j x u e r t a j c o r t
(g) seek, seeks, g h n a u l a t t i a d o e h o u
seeking
2. (a) ought u t u g a r u g o c r u d i t l a
(h) cause, causing,
(b) daughter o r c u c g h n n k g b o p u a p
caused
(c) accidentally s o n e v w h z t h g u a t a c p
(d) laundry s c u z c n o i t a r a p e r p g
5. (a) dinosaur
(e) naughty h x h p y l l a t n e d i c c a l
(b) biscuit
(f) applaud
Teacher check drawings.
9. (a) thought
3. Across (b) brief
6. (a) exhaust
1. launch (c) exhaust
4. applaud (b) piece
(d) accidentally
8. daughter (c) believe
(e) launch
10. exhaust (d) applaud
11. naughty (f) caution
12. accidentally
15. astronaut 7. (a) author, authority,
dinosaur 10. (a) dinosaur, piece
18. thought
(b) caught, naughty, (b) haunted, address
20. caution
21. sought biscuit (c) niece, brief
22. fought (c) receive, receipt, (d) calorie, caution
Down laundry (e) laundry, author
2. cause (d) applaud, astronaut,
3. nought launch
5. preparation
6. haunted
7. dinosaur
9. author
13. caught
14. laundry
16. ought
17. authority
19. taught

Unit 4 Singular and Plural Nouns

scissors scissored, scissoring • This unit focuses on words that are both singular
and plural nouns. This unit also includes two
pyjamas common, high frequency words, ‘carry’ and
spectacles spectacled ‘surprised’.
binoculars binocularity, binocularly
Teaching Points
goggles
• Revise what is meant by singular and plural
pliers nouns and give examples of each. Discuss how
species the list words remain the same whether they are
singular or plural.
series miniseries
• Identify any difficult parts of words.
trousers
• Brainstorm to list other singular and plural nouns.
scales
shears Rules
tongs • The ‘y’ at the end of base words changes to ‘i’
salmon when a suffix is added.
deerskin, deerskins, deerstalker, • To make the plural of words ending with a ‘y’
deer after a consonant, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add
deerstalkers, reindeer
‘es’.
moose
• The ‘y’ is retained when adding ‘ing’ to avoid ‘ii’
trout being written. (Two exceptions are taxiing and
athlete, athletes, athletic, athleticism, skiing.)
athletics
athletically • When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to
aircraft most words ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’ is dropped
before adding the suffix.
innings
tweezers
carries, carrying, carried, carryall, carry- Dictation
carry
on, carry-over, carry-out 1. There was a series of accidents in our house
surprised surprise, surprises, surprising, surprisingly this week, starting with Mum, who burnt her ear
while using the curling tongs. Dad cut through
Revision Words Word Building
the telephone cable while cutting the hedge with
relay relays, relaying, relayed the garden shears, Tom twisted his ankle when
surveys, surveying, surveyed, surveyor, he was doing athletics, Bob sat down on top of
survey his spectacles, I cut my hand with scissors while
surveyors, surveyable
opening a parcel and Sandy had to get tweezers
raise raises, raising, raised, raisable, raiser
to extract a splinter from her hand.
operation operations 2. I was not surprised that we hadn’t caught any
nature natures fish so we just went for a swim in the river. As I
was wearing goggles I could see plenty of trout
weight weights, weighting, weighted, weighter
and salmon, and lots of different species of frogs.
neighbours, neighbouring, neighboured, Next time we will carry the right bait to catch them
neighbour
neighbourhood, neighbourhoods and a set of scales to weigh our catch.
vein veins, veining, veined, veinal, veiny 3. At 5 a.m. there was a loud howling noise and,
morning mornings looking through the binoculars, I could see a
deer or a moose in a field with its leg caught in
might the fence. I quickly pulled on a pair of trousers
over my pyjamas and ran out with the pliers so I
could cut the wire and set it free.
4. The cricket team was about to bat for their second
innings when the batsman had to stop. He had
lost concentration due to the loud noise of the low
flying aircraft overhead.

Singular and Plural Nouns Unit 4
Answers
1. (a) Tool/Implement 3. (a) shears 8.
scissors (b) trout
binoculars s l j n f s r a l u c o n i b n y
(c) scissors
pliers r d g o g g l e s r e i l p c i s
shears (d) aircraft e i y n g n s p e c i e s a y e e
tongs (e) carry s t z e m o r n i n g e r r q v q
scales (f) pyjamas u m h i o t h g i m s r e s o o m
tweezers
(g) goggles o i i g e p x e g i y x l a e s r
Animal
(h) binoculars r k d h i a e c a d l l g c r a f
salmon
deer (i) pliers t i v b y e i r v l s n r o m n e
moose (j) trousers a t u o r t w g a p a e s s g s s
trout t t e u p x e d e t l s s l e r u
Can Be Worn 4. (a) tweezers n f h r s m k c u a i g c i a e r
pyjamas o i a l v h t r y c n o r a e z p
(b) surprised
spectacles
(c) tongs m z v r e a e g s i l e n t l e r
goggles
trousers (d) shears l d g m c t z a n b s o c p u e i
(b) aircraft (e) moose a i e l j r i n r s u r v e y w s
athletics (f) spectacles s n e e f h i c d s w g y v j t e
carry (g) innings b s g i r y l a s p y j a m a s d
innings
series (h) athletics
9. Teacher check
species (i) pliers
surprised (j) salmon
!0. series, weight, raise,
might, shears
2. Across 5. (a) dear, deer
1. pliers (b) mousse, moose
2. aircraft
(c) vain, vein
5. athletics
7. trout
8. moose 6. (a) trouble
9. scales (b) pliable
11. innings
(c) convey
13. shears
14. tongs (d) tongue
15. spectacles (e) mislay
17. surprised (f) special
19. salmon
(g) raisin
20. series
Down (h) scuffles
1. pyjamas
3. trousers 7. (a) scissors, goggles,
4. binoculars innings, carry
6. species (b) salmon
10. tweezers
12. goggles (c) moose, raise,
13. scissors nature
16. carry (d) aircraft
18. deer

Unit 5 Long Vowels

indicates, indicating, indicated, indicator, • This unit focuses on long vowels. This
indicate unit also includes two common, high
indicative, indication, indicatory
translates, translating, translated, translator, frequency words, ‘scan’ and ‘circulate’.
translate
translation, translatable
hesitates, hesitated, hesitating, hesitation, Teaching Points
hesitate
hesitative, hesitant, hesitantly, hesitancy • Discuss how the silent ‘e’ on the end of
accurate accurately, accurateness each word makes the vowel sound long:
extremely, extremist, extremists, extremism, ‘a-e’, ‘e-e’, ‘i-e’, ‘o-e’ and ‘u-e’.
extreme
extremer, extremeness • Discuss any difficult parts of words.
delete deletes, deleting, deleted, deletion • Sort the list words according to the
graphemes and brainstorm to add to each
scene scenes, scenery, scenic, scenical, scenically
list.
arrive arrives, arriving, arrived, arrival, arriver
polite politely, politeness Rules
umpire umpires, umpiring, umpired, umpireship • When adding a suffix beginning with a
describes, describing, described, describable, vowel to most words ending with ‘e’, the
describe ‘e’ is dropped before adding the suffix.
indescribable, description, descriptive
decides, deciding, decided, decider, decidedly, • To make plurals of words ending with ‘y’
decide after a consonant, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’
decidedness, decidable, decision
demote demotes, demoting, demoted, demotion and add ‘es’.
decode decodes, decoding, decoded, decoder

choke chokes, choking, choked, choker Dictation
froze freeze, freezes, freezing, frozen, freezer, freezable 1. I got the most extreme punishment
exercise for spraying perfume in class. I
refuge refuges, refugee, refugees had to translate five pages of Latin into
perfumes, perfuming, perfumed, perfumer, English and describe the costume worn
perfume
perfumery, perfumeries by a Roman emperor.
schedule schedules, scheduling, scheduled, schedular 2. THE EGOIST
costumes, costuming, costumed, costumier, I had to indicate that I was keen
costume but parties just aren’t my scene.
costumer
I walk in the room and hesitate,
scan scans, scanning, scanned, scanner, scannable
I hate that I have to circulate.
circulates, circulating, circulated, circulatable, I scan the people who are there
circulate
circulator Then decide to sit in an empty chair
Revision Words Word Building and all the time I want to delete
intercepts, intercepting, intercepted, interception, any awful people I have to meet.
intercept It’s very hard to be sweet and polite
interceptions, interceptive
when you really want them out of sight.
international internationals, internationality, internationally
I often feign an illness or choke
disappoints, disappointing, disappointed, just to get away from boring folk
disappoint
disappointment and once I just stood still and froze
disabilities, disable, disables, disabling, and moved only once to scratch my nose.
disability
disabled, disablement I’d like to be an umpire or referee
repeat repeats, repeating, repeated, repeatedly and send them off as I only want me.
revises, revising, revised, revisable, reviser, 3. Due to his injury he had to demote Tom,
revise whose job now was to decode the Morse
revisory
signals into accurate words, so his major
submarine submarines, submariner
could draw up a schedule of events for
subject subjects, subjecting, subjected, subjective the soldiers to follow. In this way they
interesting interest, interests, interested, interestingly could arrive safely and find refuge in the
war zone.
modem modems

Long Vowels Unit 5
Answers
1. (a) accurate 4. (a) hesitates, 8.
(b) arrive hesitating, hesitated
n h l d f d i s a b i l i t y p o
(c) choke (b) circulates,
circulating, z s o x e l u d e h c s n w n q c
(d) circulate
circulated u g n i t s e r e t n i t n o i b
(e) costume
(c) decodes, decoding, h m e k o h c q e x t r e m e n s
(f) decide decoded d q p b g h w r e v i r r a t t e
(g) decode (d) chokes, choking, i n d i c a t e i r r n c x c e z
(h) delete choked s e a e r p b g t b t a e p e r o
(i) demote (e) describes, a t x t d e d a a a e h p v j n r
(j) describe describing, p o u e r o e p y s r a t c b a f
described
p m v l i a c p e r f u m e u t d
2. (a) arrive (f) demotes, demoting,
o e y e i w n e y d e u c r s i e
demoted
(b) polite i d n d p m s s d d g v m c e o c
(c) demote n n m e e r p o l i t e i g a n i
5. (a) accurate, schedule
(d) accurate t i a d c e n i r a m b u s c a d
(b) intercept,
(e) froze k f o c o s t u m e t f f q e l e
submarine, refuge
(f) extreme q m h e s i t a t e e e w o c c j
(c) decide, perfume
c i r c u l a t e r o j m v p m d
(d) describe, scene
3. Across
1. refuge 9. (a) international,
4. choke 6. (a) scan hesitate, revise,
6. decide (b) Delete translate
8. hesitate (c) indicate (b) Teacher check
12. circulate (d) polite
13. indicate
15. scene (e) disappoint 10. (a) polite
16. perfume (b) arrive
18. scan 7. accurate, circulate, (c) choke
19. arrive disability, disappoint, (d) froze
20. decode hesitate, indicate,
(e) scene
Down intercept, interesting,
2. froze international, submarine
3. delete
4. costume
5. extreme
7. describe
9. translate
10. demote
11. schedule
14. accurate
16. polite
17. umpire

Unit 6 oo, ew, ou, ue, ui

mushrooms, mushroomed, • This unit focuses on the graphemes ‘oo’ ‘ew’, ‘ou’, ‘ue’
mushroom and ‘ui’ to represent a sound (phoneme). This unit
mushrooming
also includes two common, high frequency words,
monsoon monsoons, monsoonal
‘sixty’ and ‘Africa’.
cartoon cartoons, cartoonist, cartoonists
tablespoons, tablespoonful, Teaching Points
tablespoon
tablespoonfuls
• Identify the phoneme and how it is represented.
snooze snoozes, snoozing, snoozed
curfew curfews • Sort the list words according to the graphemes and
corkscrew corkscrews, corkscrewing, corkscrewed brainstorm other words to add to each list.
withdraw, withdraws, withdrawing,
withdrew
withdrawn, withdrawer Rules
screwdriver screwdrivers • When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to
coupon coupons most words ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’ is dropped before
adding the suffix.
wounds, wounding, wounded,
wound • When adding ‘ly’ to most words ending with ‘le’,
woundable
change the ‘e’ to ‘y’.
youth youths, youthfully, youthtulness
• To make words ending with ‘ch’ or a single ‘s’ plural,
group groups, grouping, grouped ‘es’ is added.
mousse mousses • When a word ends with a single ‘l’, double the ‘l’
chop suey chop sueys when a suffix beginning with a vowel is added.
gruesome gruesomely, gruesomeness

cruise cruises, cruising, cruised, cruiser Dictation
suit, suits, suiting, suited, suitability, 1. My young brother often goes for a snooze on the
suitable
suitableness, suitably couch while watching his favourite cartoon film with Mr
recruits, recruiting, recruited, recruiter, Mushroom with the big white hat, the soft and creamy
recruit Mr Mousse, Mr Corkscrew with arms of twisted wire
recruitable
pursuit pursuits and Mr Screwdriver with the flat head.
sixties, six, sixes, sixteen, sixth, sixths, 2. Things to do before you are sixty:
sixty (a) Go on a cruise around the Med.
sixtieth, sixtieths
Africa African, Africans, Africana (b) Belong to a group but don’t be led.
Revision Words Word Building (c) Find a suitable partner before you wed.
(d) Eat a tablespoon of honey before going to bed.
achieves, achieving, achieved,
achieve achievability, achievable, achievement, (e) If you see anything gruesome just turn your head.
achievements 3. As I had a discount coupon for the new shop I
chef chefs withdrew a lot of money so I could buy new clothes for
my safari trip to Africa.
ache aches, aching, ached, achingly
4. After a youth had suffered a knife wound in a gang
characters, charactered, characteristic, fight there was a curfew, so no young person could
characteristics, characteristically, be outdoors after 10 p.m., but they had to recruit
character
characterise/characterize, volunteers who could enforce the rule.
characterised/characterized
5. It was so wet during the monsoon that we went in
chemist chemists pursuit of a restaurant where we could have a big bowl
choir choirs of chop suey and shelter from the rain.
orchid orchids, ochidaceous
coaches, coaching, coached,
coach
coachable
Madrileño, Madrileña, Madrileños,
Madrid
Madrileñas
Cardiff Cardiffian, Cardiffians

oo, ew, ou, ue, ui Unit 6
Answers
1. (a) gruesome 4. (a) snooze, snoozes, 8.
(b) youth snoozed
m y m b w l C a r d i f f y f y j
(c) tablespoon (b) withdraws,
withdrawing, t a b l e s p o o n c r u i s e p
(d) snooze
withdrew m j r s c r e w d r i v e r s u u
(e) corkscrew
(c) groups, grouping, a k t i u r c e r h p k w s n s o
(f) Africa grouped y c n c u r f e w y w i u n o p r
(g) cruise (d) cruise, cruising, y h h o r c h i d m t o v n o o g
(h) cartoon cruised b o g i p u y j r h m x u i z h q
(i) wound (e) recruit, recruits, g d u a e u o m d i c r i n e c s
(j) recruit recruiting q r t t x v o r o a o v u s d c u
(k) sixty (f) wound, wounding, z c u d h A e c r n t h f g m o i
(l) mushroom wounded
y n o e M w f t x e s k c s o r t
(m) group f o q a s a o r s a g o s o o k a
(n) mousse 5. (a) orchid i e c f c o d d i i f r o p r s b
(o) monsoon (b) snooze w h h u n h m r s c m h z n h c l
(p) suitable (c) tablespoon, suitable e i t c c y j e i p a e o u s r e
(d) coupon, group c h a r a c t e r d g c h m u e v
2. mushroom, tablespoon, (e) Madrid w f p u r s u i t x o k o c m w z
corkscrew, withdrew, (f) chop suey
screwdriver, suitable (g) character
9. Teacher check
(h) curfew
3. Across
4. monsoon 10. (a) choir
6. (a) gruesome
6. pursuit (b) monsoon
7. withdrew (b) achieve
(c) cruise
8. sixty (c) cartoon
(d) ache
9. corkscrew (d) coach
11. Africa (e) achieve
(e) snooze
13. recruit (f) youth
(f) recruit
15. coupon (g) wound
16. gruesome (g) withdrew
(h) recruit/pursuit
17. screwdriver (h) suitable
18. snooze (i) snooze
(i) choir
19. wound (j) group
(j) chemist
Down
1. youth (k) coupon
2. mushroom (l) pursuit
3. cruise
4. mousse
7. (a) The coach is going
5. suitable
to Cardiff to recruit
10. cartoon
new players for the
12. chop suey
team.
14. tablespoon
15. curfew (b) The chef is going to
16. group make chop suey for
the youth group.
(c) The wound caused
by the jagged knife
looked gruesome.

Unit 7 Christmas

bauble baubles • This unit focuses on Christmas words.
This unit also includes two common, high
ceremony ceremonies, ceremonial frequency words, ‘without’ and ‘idea’.
merry merrier, merriest, merrily, merriness
artificial artificially Teaching Points
celebrate, celebrates, celebrating, • Identify difficult parts of words.
celebration
celebrated, celebrator, celebratory • Discuss ways to remember how to spell a
cranberry cranberries word.
exciting excitingly, excite, excites, excited, excitedly • Brainstorm other words to add to each list.
shepherd shepherds, shepherding, sherherded

Dictation
fireplace fireplaces
1. We have an exciting seasonal ceremony
televisions, televise, televises, televised, in our house every Christmas when, once
television
televising, telecast we have returned from the pantomime
pantomime pantomimes, pantomimic, pantomimist and are all seated around the fireplace,
seasonally, season, seasons, seasoning, eating roasted chestnuts and drinking hot
seasonal cranberry juice, Dad switches on the lights
seasoned, seasoner
on the artificial tree. We then hang up
chestnuts chestnut
every bauble we can find and wrap up the
invitations, invite, invites, inviting, invited, presents using red ribbon.
invitation
invitingly, invitee, inviter
2. My family love to make it a celebration
ribbon ribbons, ribboning, ribboned and hand out to everyone an invitation
ski, skis, skiing, skied, skiable, skier, but I’ve always hated that particular day
skiing
skiers when I had to appear in the Nativity play.
skating skate, skates, skated, skater, skaters I’ve been a wise man, a shepherd and a
king
snowboards, snowboarding, and once they had a bad idea to make me
snowboard
snowboarded, snowboarder, snowboarders sing.
sledges, sledging, sledged, sledger, Without any fuss I smile and act merry
sledging
sledgers while wishing I was back home in Derry.
Nativity 3. We were watching the travel programme
without on television when we decided to book
our holiday to Canada. The snow is perfect
idea ideas, ideally, idealess for skiing and I can take my snowboard.
Revision Words Word Building Beside the hotel there is an ice rink for
skating and small hills for sledging.
sauce sauces, saucepan, saucepans
fairy fairies, fairy-like
Santa Claus
reunion reunions
ornament, ornamenting, ornamented,
ornaments
ornamental
sleigh sleighs, sleighing, sleighed
delights, delighting, delighted, delightedly,
delight
delighter
Christmas Christmases
sugars, sugaring, sugared, sugarless,
sugar
sugary
special specials, specialness

Christmas Unit 7
Answers
1. (a) pantomime 4. (a) celebration, 9. Christmas
(b) skiing cranberry,
(c) idea chestnuts, ribbon,
10. (a) cranberries
fireplace, idea
(d) bauble (b) sauces
(b) bauble
(e) chestnuts (c) invitations
(c) Teacher check
(f) skating (d) fairies
(g) snowboard (e) ceremonies
5. seasonal, reunion,
(h) shepherd fireplace, chestnuts, (f) pantomimes
(i) artificial skiing, skating,
snowboard, idea,
2. (a) bauble Christmas, Santa Claus
(b) without
(c) snowboard 6. (a) raspberry
(d) chestnuts (b) sauna
(e) skating (c) flight
(f) shepherd (d) ornate
(g) fireplace
(h) skiing 7. (a) skiing
(b) sleigh
3. Across (c) delight
7. bauble (d) television
9. exciting (e) idea
11. idea (f) ornaments
13. shepherd
15. skiing (g) artificial
16. Nativity (h) reunion
18. artificial (i) special
19. ceremony (j) ceremony
20. celebration
(k) exciting
21. snowboard
Down (l) fireplace
1. pantomime
2. without 8. Missing word from word
3. cranberry search is Christmas.
4. sledging md g k n s g n o o f
5. invitation s k i i n g z h p o y l f
6. seasonal r md r b s l e c i v n l
8. fireplace
v e e a j p v t i o
10. chestnuts
12. television a u t s g h h a s i
14. ribbon c n h e e n z S k b p d r r x e b t t t
17. merry d e l i g h t a l o c r a n b e r r y l r n i u a
o x s o l t n s g e w p a n t om i me d d v n r
Missing word from y c l n a u o o n s v b a r t i f i c i a l n t b
crossword is skating.
r i e y i o b n i k u i o r n am e n t s m i s e
i t i n c h b a g a b k s a d gC n y dmu y e l
i a i g o e t i l d t s f f i r e p l a c e cmh e
y z f n hmp i r y e i a u k e o d g d a l nm t c c
c h j b g v e s w l j l n u y g h i n t k c u w l p a g
e l b u a b p r t v mm s g n u N a t i v i t y s r r z f
me r r y x q w u k r e d u h h um
cm r l hm s d d r cw

Unit 8 Compound Words

toothache toothaches • This unit focuses on compound words.
This unit also includes two common, high
worthwhile frequency words, ‘computer’ and ‘program’.
eyesight
wavelength wavelengths Teaching Points
goosebumps goosebump • Identify the two words that make up the
compound word.
hairstyle hairstyles, hairstylist, hairstylists
lifestyle lifestyles • Discuss ways to remember how to spell the
whiteboard whiteboards word – breaking the word into two words
skateboards, skateboarder, skateboarders, and/or breaking each word into syllables:
skateboard i.e. co/py/right (each syllable must contain a
skateboarding
vowel sound).
keyboard keyboards, keyboarders, keyboarder
guidelines guideline Rules
spreadsheet spreadsheets • When adding a suffix beginning with a
typeset typesets, typesetting, typesetter vowel to most words ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’
is dropped before adding the suffix.
copyright copyrights, copyrightable, copyrighter
• Double the consonant to keep the preceding
nightmare nightmares, nightmarish vowel short.
newspaper newspapers
supermarket supermarkets
Dictation
afterwards
1. Our boss uses a whiteboard to teach and he
worldwide often writes up new guidelines and goals for
therefore us to follow. Afterwards he encourages us
to have a healthy lifestyle so we go outside
computer computers to the skateboard park at the back of the
programs, programming, programmed, factory.
program
programmable 2. It was worthwhile buying the best computer
Revision Words Word Building and keyboard as we can now typeset
a choice of script and install the latest
attack attacks, attacking, attacked, attacker
spreadsheet to help me with my maths
chuckle chuckles, chuckling, chuckled, chuckler degree. We all love to surf the worldwide
freckle freckles, freckly web and can also install any new program
when needed.
socket sockets, socketing, socketed
3. In my nightmare I had gone blind and
mimic mimics, mimicking, mimicked, mimicker bald, and when I woke up I was covered
terrific terrifically with goosebumps, but as I could see in the
mirror I therefore knew that I hadn’t lost my
electric electrics, electricity, electrical eyesight and my hairstyle was still as cool
heroic heroically as ever.
upon 4. I had to wait two hours to see a dentist so,
as I couldn’t find the correct wavelength on
eyes, eyeing, eying, eyed, eyeless, eyesight,
eye the radio, I read the newspaper which I had
eyeball
just bought in the supermarket. Soon I forgot
about my toothache as I was engrossed
in the story about the author who had the
copyright to a book which had just been
published by another author so he was suing
him for thousands!

Compound Words Unit 8
Answers
1. (a) copyright 4. Teacher check 8. skateboard
(b) worthwhile
(c) toothache 5. (a) afterwards 9. (a) lifestyle
(d) guidelines (b) guidelines (b) eyesight
(e) therefore (c) eye (c) socket
(f) spreadsheet (d) program (d) therefore
(g) supermarket (programme) (e) spreadsheet
(h) afterwards (e) supermarket
(i) worldwide (f) upon
(j) wavelength
(k) skateboard 6. (a) heroism
(l) lifestyle (b) copywriter
(m) eyesight (c) gooseberry
(n) nightmare (d) waveband
(e) speckle
2. Across (f) track
1. lifestyle
5. worthwhile 7.
8. computer
11. whiteboard t h g i r y p o c d b m x i m n w p v
12. newspaper k e t e e h s d a e r p s i i l c r e
13. therefore
z l n s j v k b k e w a s l m j z o y
16. goosebumps
18. eyesight a f t e r w a r d s g t o o i d m g e
19. keyboard l e h c a h t o o t g e h b c r v r s
20. skateboard d r a o b y e k a f u k e n e k x a i
21. guidelines n a y m h v b c y m i r r i g t e m g
Down e b x p p u o z m v d a o h s j i t h
2. supermarket
w d c u l t a u q l e m i e y e w h t
3. copyright
4. toothache s n v t c k r f r l l r c l n r o c w
6. nightmare p y y e g z d h d h i e b k x o r w a
7. afterwards a l v r h o x u p o n p t c c f t o v
9. typeset p k c a t t a h v k e u y u i e h r e
10. spreadsheet
e r a m t h g i n f s s p h f r w l l
11. wavelength
14. hairstyle r j e l y t s r i a h b e c i e h d e
15. worldwide g o o s e b u m p s m j s a r h i w n
17. program e l k c e r f p b a g x e i r t l i g
g o r l e l e c t r i c t l e q e d t
3. (a) nightmare a i b i d h h v d l i f e s t y l e h
(b) spreadsheet
(c) eyesight
(d) toothache
(e) keyboard
(f) copyright
(g) hairstyle
(h) afterwards
(i) worthwhile

Unit 9 -ine, -ise, -ice, -ite, -ive
magazine magazines
• This unit focuses on the graphemes ‘ive’, ‘ine’,
‘ise’, ‘ice’ and ’ite’ making a long or short ‘e’
trampoline trampolines, trampolining, trampolined sound (phoneme). This unit also includes two
quarantine quarantines, quarantining, quarantined common, high frequency words, ‘monitor’ and
‘parallel’.
engines, engineer, engineering, engineered,
engine
engineless, enginery Teaching Points
imagines, imagining, imagined, imagination,
imagine • Identify the words that have a long ‘e’ sound
imaginary, imaginable, imaginably
(magazine, trampoline, quarantine) and those
examines, examining, examined, examiner,
examine that have a short ‘e’ sound.
examinable, examination
medicines, medicating, medicated, medicinal, • Discuss any difficult parts of words.
medicine
medicinally, medicable • Sort the list words according to the graphemes
advises, advising, advised, advisable, advisably, and brainstorm other words to add to each list.
advise
adviser, advisedly, advisement, advisor, advisors
Rules
promises, promising, promised, promisingly,
promise • When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to
promisee, promissory
crevice crevices, creviced most words ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’ is dropped
before adding the suffix.
services, servicing, serviced, serviceable, (The ‘e’ is retained in serviceable etc to keep
service
serviceability, serviceably, serviceableness
the soft ‘c’ sound.)
favourite favourites, favouritism
• To make many words ending with ‘o’ plural,
definite definitely, definiteness ‘es’ or ‘s’ is acceptable.
opposite opposites, oppositely, oppositeness • When adding ‘ly’ to most words ending with
‘le’, change the ‘e’ to ‘y’.
attractively, attractiveness, attraction, attract,
attractive • The ‘y’ at the end of base words changes to ‘i’
attracts, attracting, attracted
positives, positively, positiveness, positivity, when a suffix is added. The ‘y’ is retained when
positive adding ‘ing’ to avoid ‘ii’ being written (two
positivism, positivist, positivistic
negatives, negatively, negativeness, negativity, exceptions are taxiing and skiing).
negative
negativism, negativist, negativistic • Add ‘k’ to words ending with ‘ic’, before adding
explosives, explosively, explosiveness, explode, the suffixes ‘y’, ‘ed’, ‘er’, and ‘ing’.
explosive
exploding, exploded, explosion
expensive expensively, expensiveness, expense, expenses
Dictation
detectives, detect, detects, detecting, detected,
detective
detectable, detection 1. I had tried to advise him not to climb to the top
monitors, monitoring, monitored, monitorial, but he was positive he could do it. Then his
monitor fingers got injured in a crevice so he had to
monitorially, monitorship
parallel parallels, paralleling, paralleled descend and a doctor gave him medicine to
relieve the pain.
2. After ten years of service in the navy my brother
window windows, windowless, windowpane came home with a new dog for the family.
borrows, borrowing, borrowed, borrower, Although the vet did examine it and all the tests
borrow were negative it still had to go into quarantine
borrowers
swallows, swallowing, swallowed
for three months, so you can imagine our
swallow
disappointment at having to wait.
cargo cargoes
3. As the car engine had blown up my dad
zero zeros, zeroes, zeroing, zeroed brought home a car magazine. However all
the attractive ones I picked turned out to be the
tomatoes tomato
most expensive – I must have good taste!
foe foes 4. An explosive bomb was found in between the
although parallel lines of the railway and the detective
proportions, proportioning, proportioned, announced that there had been a definite
proportion proportionability, proportionable, proportionably, attempt to blow up the royal train.
proportionment 5. My favourite pastime is bouncing on a
shuttle shuttles trampoline but the monitor watching us all
made me promise not to jump over onto the
opposite one.

-ine, -ise, -ice, -ite, -ive Unit 9
Answers
1. (a) imagine 4. (a) imagined, 8. Word Search
(b) explosive imagining,
imagination m m n c h e e n i l o p m a r t n
(c) crevice
(b) positively s o j r k s n a t t r a c t i v e
(d) positive
(c) attractively e n m e j i b i h d e s x p u e o
(e) promise
(d) examined, o i e v h v i o m k z b z i p v f
(f) engine
examining, t m d i g d f e r a e f e n z i g
(g) medicine examination a a i c u a e v e r x c t e e t e
(h) detective (e) opposition m g c e o d v i s o o e i t o c x
(i) parallel (f) negatively o i i x h g i s i y p w r v g e p
(j) opposite (g) advised, advising t n n f t b t n m r s p u z r t l
(k) definite k e e k l a i e o d x p o z a e o
(l) monitor 5. Noun: monitor, engine, w o l l a w s p r t u i v s c d s
(m) favourite window, favourite, cargo w i n d o w o x p t p j a m i r i
(n) quarantine Verb: borrow, imagine, f u c v v r p e t i n i f e d t v
examine, monitor n e g a t i v e k m a g a z i n e
2. (a) parallel Adjective: favourite, e n g i n e q u a r a n t i n e g
(b) expensive definite, positive f m o n i t o r p a r a l l e l x
(c) favourite o n g i o h a s h u t t l e v x o
(d) trampoline 6. (a) imagine, shuttle
(e) quarantine (b) promise, medicine
9. (a) borrow
(f) quarantine (c) opposite, window
(b) expensive
(g) attractive (d) expensive,
(c) attractive
quarantine
(d) foe
(e) explosive, crevice
3. Across (e) definite
5. parallel
(f) explosive
8. positive 7 (a) tomatoes
12. magazine (b) although
13. definite 10. Teacher check
(c) proportion
15. quarantine
(d) explosive
18. opposite
19. advise (e) magazine
20. expensive (f) positive
21. engine (g) swallow
Down
(h) trampoline
1. examine
2. trampoline (i) service
3. medicine (j) definite
4. explosive
6. attractive
7. service
9. monitor
10. imagine
11. favourite
13. detective
14. promise
16. negative
17. crevice

Unit 10 ue, ew, iew, eau, eue

barbecue barbecues, barbecuing, barbecued • This unit focuses on the graphemes ‘ue’, ‘ew’, ‘iew’,
‘eau’ and ’eue’ to represent a sound (phoneme).
fondue fondues This unit also includes two common, high frequency
continues, continuing, continued, words, ‘body’ and ‘eighty’.
continue
continuable, continuer, discontinued
tissue tissues, tissuing, tissued Teaching Points
rescue rescues, rescuing, rescued, rescuer • Identify the phoneme and how it is represented.
analogue • Discuss any difficult parts of words.
duel duels, duelling, duelled, dueller, duellist • Sort the list words according to the graphemes and
brainstorm other words to add to each list.
refuel refuels, refuelling, refuelled
issues, issuing, issued, issuable, Rules
issue
issuance, issueless, issuer
subdues, subduing, subdued, subduable, • When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to
subdue most words ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’ is dropped
subduer, subduedly, subduedness
before adding the suffix. (Cueist is an exception).
fewer few, fewest
• When a word ends with a single ‘l’, double the ‘l’
renews, renewing, renewed, renewable, when a suffix beginning with a vowel is added.
renew
renewal, renewer
• To make many words ending with ‘o’ plural, ‘s’ is
skewer skewers, skewering, skewered added.
mildew mildews, mildewing, mildewed, mildewy • The ‘y’ at the end of base words changes to ‘i’
views, viewing, viewable, viewless, when a suffix is added. (The ‘y’ is retained in
viewed beautifying to avoid ‘ii’ being added.)
viewlessly
viewpoint viewpoints
reviews, reviewing, reviewed, reviewer, Dictation
review
reviewal
beauties, beautify, beautifies, beautifying, 1. Nothing could subdue my excitement as I opened
beauty my present and found a new analogue speedometer
beautified
for my bike. I couldn’t wait to cycle uphill to the
beautiful beautifully viewpoint from where you can see the beautiful
queue queues, queuing, queued valley below.
body bodies, bodying, bodied 2. The Daughter’s Plea.
If you want to learn some new beauty tips
eighty eighties And how to have a body with perfect hips
Revision Words Word Building Then renew my subscription to teen magazine
athletes, athletic, athletics, athletically, As my thirst for trivia is so keen.
athlete Every week they publish a must-have issue
athleticism
And free today is a big pink tissue.
these those The lives of the famous can be viewed
accuses, accused, accusing, accuser, And all the people that they’ve sued.
accuse
accusingly, accusation You can read a film critic’s review,
amuses, amused, amusing, amusingly, Which meat to put on a barbecue
amuse
amusements Or filling a skewer without using glue.
mobiles, mobility, mobilise/mobilize, So order it on line and avoid the queue
mobile mobilisable/mobilizable, mobilisation/ Snacks will be made for the new fondue
mobilization and you can even read it too.
divide divides, divided, dividing, division, divider 3. The holiday cottage was six hours drive away so
we had to stop to refuel and then continue our
broke break, broken, brokenly drive in the dark for about eighty miles. On arrival
phone telephone, phones, phoned, phoning we were horrified to find out how damp and cold it
was inside the cottage. There was mildew covering
easy easier, easiest, easily, ease, easygoing
the bathroom and no fewer than 16 spiders were
fractions, fractional, fractionally, factionise/ living there. Mum wanted to phone the mountain
fraction
fractionize rescue team and dad wanted to arrange a duel with
the owner using machine guns! We went to a hotel
instead.

ue, ew, iew, eau, eue Unit 10
Answers
1. (a) queue 4. (a) continues, 8. Word Search
(b) analogue continuing,
continued j h r v i e w e d l i m y d u e l
(c) skewer
(b) rescue, rescuing, f r h n f u v r a m u s e d h s w
(d) beauty
rescued l k r l p s e u c e b r a b o u e
(e) rescue
(c) refuel, refuels, u h e b e s p e p m b k n t d b i
(f) viewed refuelling f l w f s i j m h l d r a p s d v
(g) beautiful (d) barbecue, i b e a u t y p o e i e l l n u e
(h) renew barbecues, t v k u n u e u n u v s o i s e r
(i) continue barbecued
u a s j r i q k e f i c g c r g n
(j) subdue (e) queue, queuing, a t d p n v e x o e d u u o c o t
(k) duel queued
e n m e u s s i a r e e e n i c z
(l) tissue (f) duel, duels, duelled
b i l s b x w t e v b u l t j k e
(m) review (g) renews, renewing,
x o q g k e h w l v d v c i d w k
renewed
(n) fewer m p t u n l e l w n u a y n b b w
r w r e e f a k o b r c g u t o y
5. (a) viewpoint
2. (a) analogue x e r t k u z f y f o d y e a s m
(b) eighty, divide,
(b) barbecue u i e f t h e s e s u c c a a r s
fraction
(c) beautiful a v n l d e i g h t y n e e w k v
(c) rescue, barbecue,
(d) beauty cue or fondue,
(e) body subdue, duel, due 9. continue
(f) continue (d) beautiful or
(g) duel analogue 10. (a) accuse
(h) eighty (b) issue
(i) fewer 6. (a) fraction (c) review
(j) fondue (b) phone (d) amuse
(c) subdue or mildew (e) subdue
3. Across (d) athlete (f) mobile
4. fondue
6. skewer 7. (a) Let’s phone that
10. eighty famous athlete and
11. fewer invite him to our
12. beauty barbecue.
13. viewed (b) I broke my mobile
14. analogue phone while
16. tissue standing at the
19. issue viewpoint over the
20. continue beautiful valley.
Down
1. rescue (c) There was a long
2. duel queue of cars at the
3. barbecue pumps waiting to
5. body refuel.
7. queue
8. refuel
9. renew
12. beautiful
13. viewpoint
15. mildew
17. subdue
18. review

Unit 11 Silent Letters
wrote write, writes, written, writing, writer • This unit focuses on words that have silent
letters. This unit also includes two common,
wretch wretches, wretchedly, wretchedness high frequency words, ‘emergency’ and ‘accept’.
wrestle wrestles, wrestling, wrestled, wrestler, wrestlers
answers, answering, answered, answerer, Teaching Points
answer
answerless, answerable, answerableness • Identify the silent letter in each word.
kneel kneels, kneeling, knelt, kneeled, kneeler • Identify any other difficult parts of words.
yolk yolks, yolkless, yolky • Brainstorm to list other words with silent letters
guides, guiding, guided, guider, guidable, and sort them into groups.
guide
guideless, guidebook, guidepost
thumbs, thumbing, thumbed, thumbless, Rules
thumb
thumblike, thumbnail, thumbscrew, thumbtack • Double the consonant to keep the preceding
plumbers, plumb, plumbs, plumbing, vowel short.
plumber
plumbed, plumbable, plumbless, plumbness
• When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to
tongue, tonguing, tongued, tongueless, most words ending with ‘e’ the ‘e’ is dropped
tongue
tongue-tied, tongue-in-cheek, tongue-lashing before adding the suffix. (Both mistakeable and
shoulder shoulders, shouldering, shouldered mistakable are accepted)
boulder boulders • To make the plural of words ending with a ‘y’
after a consonant, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add
yacht yachts, yachting, yachtsman, yachtswoman
‘es’.
column columns, columned, columnated • Many words ending with ‘f’ or ‘fe’, change the
knead kneads, kneading, kneaded, kneader ‘f’ to ‘v’ before adding the suffix.
debt debts, debtor
folk folks, folktale, folklore Dictation
guards, guarding, guarded, guarder, 1. I had to wrestle an alligator who wanted to be
guard
guardable, guardian fed.
rhythms, rhythmic, rhythmics, rhythmical, I sailed in a yacht round a sea that was red.
rhythm
rhythmically, rythmist I learned to knead dough to make some bread.
wharf wharves I climbed Nelson’s column to see if it was lead.
I dived off a wharf and split open my head.
emergency emergencies
I wrote letters to folk who thought I was dead.
accepts, accepting, accepted, acceptability, Now there is a prison guard with whom I am
accept acceptable, acceptably, acceptance, wed.
acceptancy, acceptant I’ve ended up a wretch who can’t get out of bed.
Revision Words Word Building 2. The mountain soared above us, but our guide
choices, choicer, choicest, choiceness, kept the rhythm going and there was no stopping
choice or leaning against any boulder, even though my
choicely
invoice invoices, invoiced, invoicing tongue was so dry and my shoulder ached from
carrying my backpack.
appoints, appointed, appointing, appointment,
appoint 3. ‘It is stuck!’ ‘What is?’ My thumb in the tap was
appointments, appointee
his answer. I had to kneel over the bath and pull
enjoys, enjoyed, enjoying, enjoyment,
enjoy his hand but to no avail so I had to accept that it
enjoyable, enjoyably, enjoyableness
was an emergency. I called a plumber who took
employs, employed, employing, employment, the tap off the bath, and we all went down to the
employ
employable, employee, employer hospital – thumb still in tap!
voyage voyages, voyaged, voyaging, voyager 4. I was in debt when I was a student so I worked
annoys, annoyed, annoying, annoyingly, in a bakery. I had to extract the yolk from the egg
annoy
annoyingness, annoyance white so they could make meringues and now I
lifebuoy lifebuoys hate eggs and boring jobs!
beginning beginning, begin, begins, began, begun

coming comes, came, come

Silent Letters Unit 11
Answers
1. (a) answer 4. U: guide, tongue, 8. Word Search
(b) kneel shoulder, boulder, guard
W: wrote, wrestle, b h j p v d r a u g g c t r i t y
(c) wrote
answer, wretch i e q f e c h o i c e c r h h b f
(d) debt
B: thumb, plumber, debt q d n n x q r y t z v e o u c q y
(e) boulder
L: yolk, folk u c l j g m t o n g u e m m w a q
(f) wrestle
H: yacht, rhythm, wharf e m p l o y o p l u m b e r i i y
(g) guide
N: column e t d a f y r v o y a g e o t n c
(h) plumber y o l k c r e d l u o h s z n v g
K: kneel, knead
(i) column n r v s y c n e g r e m e f i o w
E: tongue
(j) wharf v x w c w b e g i n n i n g o i r
C: yacht
(k) shoulder b o u l d e r p q e h n c u p c e
(l) yacht f d a e n k r x t z d c v i p e s
5. (a) wrestle, yacht,
(m) tongue t k n e e l h u p f k l t d a i t
wharf
(n) rhythm p b k l o f y v q y o u b e f i l
(b) plumber, wrote,
invoice n a e w r o t e c o l u m n r u e
2. yacht, accept, choice, v l z d j w h a r f h o w o y w l
(c) choice, folk, boulder
invoice, appoint, enjoy, i a n n o y m a n s w e r r a v p
(d) answer, enjoy,
annoy v x n h s q k t m k j i l i c h n
tongue
3. Across 9. Teacher check

6. (a) doubt
3. yacht
4. thumb (b) autumn
6. plumber (c) urgency 10. (a) acceptance
7. folk (d) rogue (b) appointment
11. shoulder (c) enjoyment
(e) chalk
13. wrestle
(f) ointment (d) employment
15. yolk
17. guard (e) annoyance
19. tongue 7. wrote (2), wretch (1), (f) guidance
20. wretch kneel (2), yolk (1),
21. accept guide (3), thumb (1),
22. guide tongue (3), yacht (1),
Down knead (2), debt (1),
1. wharf folk (1), guard (2),
2. column wharf (1)
5. boulder
8. kneel
9. wrote
10. answer
12. emergency
14. rhythm
16. knead
18. debt

Unit 12 al-, wel-, -til, -ful

almost • This unit focuses words that begin with ‘al’
or ‘wel’ and words that end with ‘til’ or ‘ful’.
already This unit also includes two common, high
almighty almightiness frequency words, ‘either’ and ‘neither’.
altogether
Teaching Points
welcomes, welcoming, welcomed,
welcome
welcomeness, welcomely, welcomer • Discuss that instead of the word part ‘all’,
welfare welfarism, welfarist ‘well’, ‘till’ or ‘full’ being added to each
word, one ‘l’ has been omitted from the
until beginning or ending word part.
instills, instilling, instilled, instiller, installation, • Discuss difficult parts of words.
instil
instilment
• Identify any smaller words that make up
delightfully, delight, delights, delighting, each word and the base words in the words
delightful
delighted, delightedly, delighter, delightedness ending with ‘ful’.
powerfully, powerfulness, power, powers,
powerful
powering, powered, powerless, powerlessly
Rules
awful awfully, awfulness
• When adding a suffix beginning with a
usefully, usefulness, use, uses, using, used, vowel to most words ending with ‘e’, the
useful
useable, useless, uselessly, uselessness ‘e’ is dropped before adding the suffix.
carefully, carefulness, care, cares, caring, cared, (Useable is an exception.)
careful
careless, carelessly, carelessness
• When a word ends with a single ‘l’, double
fearfully, fearfulness, fear, fears, fearing, feared, the ‘l’ when a suffix beginning with a vowel
fearful
fearless, fearlessly, fearlessness is added.
gracefully, gracefulness, grace, graces, gracing,
graceful • The ‘y’ at the end of base words changes to
graced, graceless, gracelessly, gracelessness
‘i’ when a suffix is added.
hopefully, hopefulness, hope, hopes, hoping,
hopeful
hoped, hopeless, hopelessly, hopelessness
skillfully, skillfulness, skill, skills, skilled, Dictation
skilful
unskilled
1. We arrived in Gambia to a great welcome
thankfully, thankfulness, thank, thanks, thanking,
thankful but we were fearful about witnessing the
thanked, thankless, thanklessness
welfare of the people living in such poverty.
watchfully, watchfulness, watch, watches,
watchful We were hopeful we could instil in them the
watching, watched, watcher, watchtower
advantages of the new farming methods.
wonderfully, wonderfulness, wonder, wonders,
wonderful 2. After only two weeks they were already
wondering, wondered, wondrous
skilful enough to start planting and they
either understood how useful it would be, so they
neither were all very thankful.
Revision Words Word Building 3. It was a delightful ballet and the dancers
were so graceful it looked as if they were
thirst, thirsts, thirstier, thirstiest, thirstiness, almost floating on air.
thirsty
thirstily
4. There were 12 of us altogether in the team
virus viruses, viral but either John or Tom was going to leave
urchin urchins as they had both become quite lazy and not
careful enough in their work.
burst bursts, bursting
5. Neither of us had realized how powerful the
further furthers, furthering, furthered, furthest, furthermore waves could be until the night of the storm
remembers, remembered, remembering, and, although we had been watchful of the
remember
remembrance weather, that awful rain came so suddenly,
earthquake earthquakes followed by the almighty thunder. It was the
most wonderful sight in the world to see the
heard hear, hears, hearing coastal rescue service coming towards us.
sincerely sincere, sincerity
library libraries, librarian, librarians

al-, wel-, -til, -ful Unit 12
Answers
1. (a) wonderfully 4. (a) skilful 8. Word Search
(b) awfully (b) almost
h u w w l n q l u f e r a c w b q
(c) delightfully (c) wonderful
e t k e b u f u t a l m o s t l j
(d) powerfully (d) welcome
r h a l m i g h t y l u f l i k s
(e) carefully (e) almighty a y a c b n i l u f k n a h t z k
(f) skilfully (f) until f d l o u s e f u l n e i t h e r
(g) watchfully (g) powerful l l t m o t g g t h i r s t y n h
(h) instill e u o e w i v l u f t h g i l e d
2. (a) thankless (i) watchful w f g v n l u f e c a r g y k o s
(b) powerless (j) altogether d r e b m e m e r s i j d a e y y
(c) graceless (k) awful r e t e e i t h e r f a u l q l l
(d) useless (l) already e w h o p e f u l i e q b u u e i
(e) hopeless (m) delightful h o e d g e l s c r h u n f r r b
(f) fearless (n) hopeful t p r j a u u h l t r p v h c e r
(g) careless (o) graceful r w e r f r e a r s u y s c h c a
(p) welfare u y f w i a r a t p i y n t i n r
3. Across (q) fearful f u a v r l e l i t n u a a n i y
1. already (r) thankful l t q d w o n d e r f u l w n s l
3. thankful
4. skilful
7. neither 5. (a) neither, remember
9. Teacher check
9. watchful (b) sincerely, careful
11. wonderful (c) altogether,
13. awful wonderful, thirsty 10. (a) urchin
14. instil (b) thirsty
16. either (c) awful
17. until 6. (a) earthquake, fearful
18. hopeful (b) library, either (d) burst
19. welcome (c) urchin, heard (e) virus
Down (f) until
(d) virus, hopeful
1. almost
2. delightful (e) thirsty, watchful
5. useful (f) neither, almighty
6. graceful
8. careful 7. (a) to, get, her, tog
10. almighty
11. welfare (b) ear, earth, quake,
12. fearful art
13. altogether (c) read, ready
15. powerful (d) power, owe, we
(e) grace, race, ace

Unit 13 Spring/Easter

chocolate chocolately, chocolates • This unit focuses on spring words. This
unit also includes two common, high
colourfully, colourfullness, colour, colours, frequency words, ‘lettuce’ and ‘onion’.
colourful
colouring, coloured, colourer
climate climates, climatic, climatically Teaching Points
annual annuals, annually, annualize
• Identify difficult parts of words.
calories calorie, calorific • Discuss ways to remember how to spell
aroma aromas, aromatic, aromatically a word.
dying die, dies, died, death, deaths • Brainstorm other words to add to each
list.
decorates, decorating, decorated, decorator,
decorate decorative, decoratively, decorators, decoration,
decorations Dictation
variety varieties, various, variously, variousness 1. At the annual ritual visit to the
Cadbury factory I eat lots of calories
temperature temperatures, temperate, temperately, temperateness
as the chocolate is irresistible. I
yellows, yellowing, yellowed, yellowish, yellowy, indulge myself with all the tempting
yellow
yellowness confectionery and I take home a cake,
buffet buffets, buffeter which I get to decorate myself.
confectionery confection, confections, confectioner, confectioners 2. Disciples of vegetarianism often claim
that at a buffet there is not enough
disciples disciple, discipleship, discipular variety of food for them apart from
indulges, indulging, indulged, indulgent, indulgently, lettuce, cheese, onion and tomato,
indulge
indulger and they are dying to eat something
irresistible irresistibility, irresistibly, irresistibleness different.
temptingly, temptingness, tempt, tempts, tempted, 3. A dove is a symbol of peace and hope,
tempting Yellow is more colourful than boring
temptable, temptor, temptation, temptress
symbols, symbolic, symbolical, symbolically, old taupe.
symbolise/symbolize, symbolising/symbolizing, Clean and fresh is the aroma of soap,
symbol With a high temperature you just can’t
symbolised/symbolized, symbolism, symbolist,
symbolists cope.
If descending a gorge use a rope,
gorge gorges, gorging, gorged, gorger, engorge When the climate is rainy I just start to
rituals, ritually, ritualism, ritualist, ritualistic, mope.
ritual
ritualistically, ritualise/ritualize
lettuce lettuces
onion onions, oniony
wellingtons
umbrella umbrellas
soldier soldiers, soldiering, soldiered, soldierly
nurture nurtures, nurturing, nurtured, nurturer
celebrates, celebrating, celebrated, celebration,
celebrate
celebrations, celebrator, celebratory
religion religions, religious, religiousness, religionless
weathers, weathering, weathered, weatherperson,
weather weatherman, weatherproof, weatherproofed,
weatherworn
lightning
eighth eighths, eight, eighty, eighties
truly true, trues, trueing, trued, trueness, truer, truest

Spring/Easter Unit 13
Answers
1. (a) calories, decorate, 4. (a) colourful 9. Word Search
gorge onion
(b) lettuce u
tempting c
(c) disciples annual t o a
(d) confectionery v d n m s
variety f h y f o y r
(e) yellow indulge b i e r m
(f) decorate, (b) ritual x n c a b
temperature c g t y o
(c) Teacher check l q i r l
(g) ritual u i a o t u c
(h) colourful 1 c m n n n m l q
5. umbrella, wellingtons, f e e a b e n i e y t
(i) tempting lightning, Irresistible, u p g l t e r c u o m f t
(j) annual chocolate, tempting, r e e t y e r a n
(k) chocolate, decorate, aroma, variety, o b y f u e l j l
confectionery, indulge, g r e j i c u l x
climate
calories x a e f n a e c a
k t r p d l w r c v e m u c
2. (a) calories l d e u q u o u r e l i g i o n
6. Teacher check e i g h t h l r d j b k e y q l o s
(b) lettuce x a g f m r b g i y i r t t c i o m i
(c) chocolate h p e u s e e t v e e a h r u q q
7. (a) soldier t k n n n t s w y i m r o i r s j
(d) onion n y j b e i t e r d p o c t f j p
(b) indulge
(e) symbol i w a f s n i a g l t c o u u c w
(c) dying n g f e r c v t p o i e l a l o p
(f) variety
(d) truly g u r p e a j h a s n d a l l g k
(g) dying b r q r e g k e u g g f t l j s w
(e) gorge i t t e m p e r a t u r e c a n b
(h) tempting
(f) irresistible t s e l p i c s i d z g y m k f d y f
3. Across
3. onion 8. (a) tempt, tempts, Missing word from word
6. yellow tempted, temptation search is wellingtons.
8. chocolate (b) decorates,
11. irresistible decorating, 10. Teacher check
12. ritual decorated,
14. indulge decoration
18. variety (c) celebrates,
19. gorge celebrating,
20. annual celebrated,
21. temperature celebration
Down
1. dying
2. colourful
4. confectionery
5. symbol
7. lettuce
8. calories
9. disciples
10. aroma
13. tempting
15. decorate
16. climate
17. buffet

Unit 14 sh, ti, si, ssi, ci
fashion fashions, fashionable, fashionably, fashionability, fashionableness

• This unit focuses on the
graphemes ‘sh’, ‘ti’, ‘si’, ‘ssi’
cushion cushions and ‘ci’ to represent a sound
descriptions, describe, describes, describing, described, describable, (phoneme). This unit also
description
descriptive includes two common, high
collections, collect, collects, collecting, collected, collectable, collectible, frequency words, ‘country’
collection
collective and ‘trouble’.
populations, populate, populating, populated, populating, populous,
population
populously Teaching Points
multiplication multiplicational, multiplicative, multiply, multiplying, multiplied, multiplicate • Identify the phoneme and
imagine, imagines, imagining, imagined, imaginable, imaginary, how it is represented.
imagination
imaginative
• Discuss any difficult parts of
informational, inform, informs, informing, informed, informative, informer, words.
information
informable, informedly, informingly
• Sort the list words to the
composition compositional, compose, composes, composing, composed, composer graphemes and brainstorm
vaccinations, vaccinal, vaccinate, vaccinates, vaccinating, vaccinated, other words to add to each
vaccination
vaccinator, vaccine, vaccines list.
pensions, pensionable, pensionary, pensonaries, pensioner, pensioners,
pension
pensionless RULES:
tensions, tensional, tensionless, tensive, tense, tensing, tensed, tensely,
tension • When adding ‘ly’ to most
tenseness
words ending with ‘le’,
extension extensions, extensional, extensionally, extend, extends, extending, extended
change the ‘e’ to ‘y’.
expressions, expressionless, express, expresses, expressing, expressed,
expression • When adding a suffix
expressive, expressively
beginning with a vowel to
admission admissions, admit, admits, admitting, admitted, admittance, admitter most words ending with ‘e’,
discussions, discuss, discusses, discussing, discussed, discusser, the ‘e’ is dropped before
discussion
discussible, discussable adding the suffix.
concussion concussions, concuss, concusses, concussing, concussed, concussive • The ‘y’ at the end of base
permit, permits, permitting, permitted, permissive, permissively, permissible, words changes to ‘i’ when
permission a suffix is added.
permissibly
socials, socially, socialness, sociable, sociableness, sociably, socialise/ • To make the plural of words
social
socialize, socialisation/socialization ending with ‘y’ after a
officially, officialdom, officialese, officialise/officialize, officialises/officializes, consonant, change the ‘y’
official
officialising/officializing, officialised/officialized, officiant, officiary, officiate to ‘i’ and add ‘es’.
country countries, countrified, countryman, countrymen, countryside • Double the consonant to
troubles, troubling, troubled, troubler, troublemaker, troubleshooter, keep the preceding vowel
trouble sound short.
troublesome, troublesomely
Revision
Word Building
Words Dictation
precise precisely, precision 1. The vaccination programme
prevents, preventing, prevented, preventer, prevention, preventable, took place in the school’s
prevent
preventative new extension and the
microscope microscopes, microscopic, microscopical, microscopically, microscopy tension was high among
the girls. Many had a fearful
microphone microphones, microphonic expression so the only
woollen wool, wools, woolly, woollier, woollies discussion being held was
about the pain and not about
strengthen strength, strengthens, strengthening, strengthened, strengthener
the composition we had to
amazement amaze, amazes, amazing, amazed, amazingly, amazedly, amazedness hand in.
excitement excite, excites, exciting, excited, excitingly, excitable, excitably 2. If the whole country and its
population learned and used
escape escapes, escaping, escaped, escapee, escapees, escapism, escapist
their imagination and studied
none all the relevant information
then we could all work out
any multiplication.

sh, ti, si, ssi, ci Unit 14
3. At the social club there 3. Across
was some trouble and 3. trouble
the collection money 4. discussion 6. (a) vaccine 9. Teacher check
for the admission fees 6. admission (b) permit
had been stolen, so 7. official (c) excite 10. (a) strengthen
the police were given a 10. expression (d) discuss (b) prevent
good description of the 12. multiplication
thieves. 14. description (e) admit (c) multiplication
4. The official age of 17. concussion (f) collect (d) none
retirement is 65 when 18. pension (g) strength (e) official
you will receive a 19. imagination (h) imagine (f) precise
government pension. 20. extension
(i) describe (g) excitement
My granddad is 67 but 21. country
Down (j) office (h) admission
has permission from
his boss to continue 1 population (k) populate
working. 2. vaccination (l) amaze
3. tension
5. What a disaster at
5. information
the fashion show as 7. (a) escape
8. cushion
the model fell off the
9. collection (b) imagination
catwalk and suffered a
11. composition (c) prevent
concussion. As she lay
13. permission
there I put a cushion (d) pension
15. fashion
under her head. (e) country
16. social
(f) composition
Answers 4. ation: population (g) fashion
1. (a) permission multiplication (h) tension/extension
(b) social imagination (i) none/microphone
(c) vaccination information (j) permission/
(d) trouble vaccination admission
(e) extension tion: description
(f) fashion collection 8. Word Search
(g) country shion: fashion
t m t t n o i s s u c n o c d r v n e
(h) admission cushion
n i n s m u l t i p l i c a t i o n r
(i) multiplication ition: composition e c e t o h m i c r o p h o n e w j k
(j) tension sion: pension m r m r o c v a c c i n a t i o n r h
(k) description tension e o e e c f i e a d m i s s i o n g c
(l) concussion extension z s t n n o f a z l a f d y c n o n e
(m) composition ssion: expression a c i g u n l i l n g e a e m f y y x
(n) information admission m o c t i n o l c q i q e s u i g x t
a p x h o x e i e i n t u s h c z b e
discussion
d e e e u j f l s c a p r l c i q f n
2. (a) com/po/si/tion concussion
y r t n u o c h l s t l n o q a o x s
(b) i/ma/gin/a/tion permission n p e n s i o n e o i i v o u f p n i
(c) in/for/ma/tion cial: social d i s c u s s i o n o m o d i b e e o
(d) mul/ti/pli/ca/tion official i n f o r m a t i o n w r n c h l f n
(e) pop/u/la/tion e p o p u l a t i o n p r e c i s e a
(f) vac/cin/a/tion 5. (a) cushion, s u j a g b y n o i s s e r p x e u p
vaccination r e z p r e v e n t c t e n s i o n c
(b) amazement, g c o m p o s i t i o n t l y r w b y
microphone c f d e s c r i p t i o n r x u r m g
(c) population, pension
(d) escape,
multiplication

Unit 15 -able, -ible

avail, avails, availing, availed, availability, availabilities, • This unit focuses on the suffixes
available ‘able’ and ‘ible’. This unit also
availableness, availably
enjoy, enjoys, enjoying, enjoyed, enjoyableness, enjoyably, includes two common, high
enjoyable frequency words, ‘forgotten’ and
enjoyer
comfortably, uncomfortable, comfortableness, comfort, comforts, ‘separate’.
comfortable
comforting, comforted
reasonable
reasonableness, reasonably, reason, reasons, reasoning, Teaching Points
reasoned, unreasonable
• Discuss the meaning of each
unforgivable, forgive, forgives, forgiving, forgave, forgiveness,
forgivable suffix (both mean capable of
forgivably
being).
flammability, non-flammable, flame, flames, flaming, flamed,
flammable • Identify the base word for each list
flameless
word, where appropriate.
remarkably, remarkableness, remarkability, remark, remarks,
remarkable • Discuss any difficult parts of the
remarking, remarked
words.
advise, advises, advising, advised, advisedly, advisedness,
advisable • Sort the list words according to the
advisory, advisability, advisor
suffixes and brainstorm to add to
noticeable noticeably, noticeability, notice, notices, noticing, noticed
each list.
valuable valuably, valuableness, value, values, valuing, valued
reversible
reversibly, reversibility, reversibleness, reverse, reverses, RULES:
reversing, reversed, reversal
• To make the plural of words
flexible flexibility, flexibly, flexibleness, flex, flexes, flexing, flexed ending with a ‘y’ after a
horribly, horribleness, horror, horrors, horrify, horrifies, horrifying, consonant, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’
horrible
horrified and add ‘es’.
digestibility, digestibly, digestibleness, digest, digests, digesting, • When adding ‘ly’ to most words
digestible
digested, digestion ending with ‘le’ change the ‘e’
edibility, edibleness, edibles, eat, eats, eating, eaten, eatable, to ‘y’.
edible
eater • When adding a suffix beginning
visible visibility, visibilities, visibly, visibleness with a vowel to most words
sensibly, sensibleness, sensibility, sense, senses, senseless, ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’ is
sensible dropped before adding the suffix.
senselessly, senselessness
(The ‘e’ is retained in noticeable
audible audibility, audibly, audibleness
etc. to keep the soft c sound.)
legible legibility, legibly, legibleness • The ‘y’ at the end of base words
divisibility, divisibly, divisibleness, divide, divides, dividing, changes to ‘i’ when a suffix is
divisible
divided, division, divisor added. (The ‘y’ is retained in
forget, forgets, forgetting, forgot, forgettable, forgetter, forgetful, horrifying to avoid ‘ii’ being
forgotten
forgetfully, forgetfulness added.)
separates, separating, separately, separateness, separation,
separate
separarist, separationist Dictation
1. It is remarkable how my noticeable
cough coughs, coughing, coughed, cougher portrait dominates the hall,
laughs, laughing, laughed, laughter, laughable, laughably, Egocentrically enjoyable as I stand
laugh ten feet tall.
laughingly
draughts, draughty, draughtier, draughtiest, draughtiness
Visible and striking where I’ve hung
draught
it on the wall,
paragraphs, paragraphing, paragraphed, paragrapher, Available for all to see, who happen
paragraph
paragraphist, paragraphic to call.
photographs, photographing, photographed, photographer, A valuable possession so it’s nailed
photograph
photographic well to prevent a fall.
atmosphere atmospheres, atmospheric, atmospherical, atmospherically 2. While sitting in the comfortable
nephew nephews seats, sipping drinks through our
flexible straws, we love our after
phobia phobias, phobic
school chats where the gossip is
August Augusts, augustly only audible to our select group,
November Novembers and we try to separate fact from
fiction.
-able, -ible Unit 15
3. My writing is legible. 3. Across
My sums are divisible. 1. horrible
My coat is reversible. 3. forgivable 7. (a) nephew or valuable
My shoe is flammable. 4. divisible (b) available,
So I’ll tell you something 7. sensible reasonable,
advisable. 9. reasonable noticeable
Never throw a shoe at 15. digestible (c) November
your sister, 18. comfortable
(d) noticeable
As it may land in the fire 19. available
if you missed her! 20. advisable
4. It is sensible to follow a 21. visible 8. Word Search
healthy diet, Down
2. reversible u f p h v t h o h e e e e e a g p e h
If it is edible and non-fat
3. flexible l i f o r g o t t e n l r l d a a l d
then you buy it.
Fruit and veg are good 5. forgotten h v a l u a b l e w b b e b v z r b c
and very digestible, five 6. separate b j f A u g u s t a m a h i i e a a j
a day, they say, is what 8 valuable a e l b i s i v m a j y p d s t g n q
is advisable. 10. audible v l t m c q j m f f j o s e a a r o i
It is reasonable to eat an 11. enjoyable a i b o h p a l g t k j o i b r a s y
occasional sweet, 12. noticeable
i o a o e l b i g e l n m g l a p a a
But it is never forgivable 13. remarkable
l c o m f o r t a b l e t n e p h e w
to have smelly feet! 14. flammable
16. edible a n o t i c e a b l e N a k d e d r z
5. It made me feel sad and b l a u d i b l e o i s o d e s h x n
17. legible
horrible that you had l e m j j h e l b i s r e v e r x s a
forgotten my birthday.
4. (a) uncomfortable e h o r r i b l e i o u x n e u a u a
(b) unreasonable t h g u a r d l c a t w a p s m j c l
f l e x i b l e h m r s h d i i b q l
(c) unavailable
c p e l b a v i g r o f e k n i b e h
(d) irreversible
h p a r g o t o h p t p e g f s f l r
(e) illegible j f h g u o c v n d i v i s i b l e e
Answers (f) inedible e l b a k r a m e r f o d d p d m k x
1. (a) forgivable (g) invisible
(b) edible (h) unremarkable 9. Teacher check
(c) comfortable (i) unforgivable
(d) visible (j) invaluable 10. (a) cough, November
(e) audible (k) inaudible (b) legible, separate
(f) legible (l) inflexible
(g) flammable
(h) flexible 5. remarkable, valuable,
photograph, nephew,
(i) enjoyable
atmosphere, August,
(j) divisible advisable, sensible
(k) available
(l) valuable 6. (a) phobia
(m) noticeable (b) flammable
(n) horrible (c) separate
(d) laugh
2. (a) reversibility (e) horrible
(b) divisibility (f) valuable
(c) availability (g) reasonable
(d) flammability (h) comfortable
(e) visibility (i) flexible
(f) digestibility (j) atmosphere

Unit 16 -ious, -ous
serious seriously, seriousness • This unit focuses on the suffixes ‘ious’

or ‘ous’. This unit also includes two
curious curiously, curiousness, curiosity, curiosities common, high frequency words,
enviously, enviousness, envy, envies, envying, ‘picture’ and ‘occurred’.
envious
envied, envyingly
various
variously, variousness, vary, varies, varying, varied, Teaching Points
varyingly, varier
• Discuss the meaning of the suffixes
ambitiously, ambitiousness, ambition, ambitions,
ambitious (both mean ‘full of’).
ambitionless
• Identify the base word for each list word,
precious preciously, preciousness where appropriate.
conscious consciously, consciousness, consciousness-raising • Discuss any difficult parts of the words.
suspicious suspiciously, suspiciousness, suspicion, suspicions • Sort the list words according to the
delicious deliciously, deliciousness endings and brainstorm to add to each
list.
anxious anxiously, anxiousness, anxiety, anxieties
nervously, nervousness, nerve, nerves, nerveless, RULES
nervous
nervy, nervier, nerviest
• For words ending with ‘our’ and ‘ous’,
famously, famousness, fame, faming, famed,
famous drop the ‘u’ before adding the suffixes
fameless
‘ous’ or ‘ity’.
jealous jealously, jealousness, jealousy, jealousies
• To make the plural of words ending
dangerously, dangerousness, danger, dangers, with ‘y’ after a consonant, change the
dangerous
endanger, endangering, endangered ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘es’. (Monies is an
marvellously, marvellousness, marvel, marvels, exception.)
marvellous
marvelling, marvelled • The ‘y’ at the end of base words
tremendous tremendously, tremendousness changes to ‘i’ when a suffix is added.
fabulous fabulously, fabulousness, fab (The ‘y’ is retained in envying and
varying to avoid ‘ii’ being added.)
generous generously, generousness, generosity, generosities
• When adding ‘y’ to a word ending with
enormous enormously, enormousness, enormity, enormities ‘e’, drop the ‘e’ before adding ‘y’.
numerously, numerousness, number, numbers, • When adding a suffix beginning with a
numerous
numbering, numbered, numberless vowel to most words ending with ‘e’,
pictures, picturing, pictured, pictograph, the ‘e’ is dropped before adding the
picture pictographic, pictorial, picturesque, picturesquely, suffix.
picturesqueness
occurred occur, occurs, occurring, occurrence Dictation
Revision Words Word Building 1. This time I was in serious trouble and
as I stood outside the head teacher’s
ability abilities, able, abled, ably
office I felt anxious and nervous. I tried
mystery mysteries, mysterious, mysteriously, mysteriousness not to show my fear as I was conscious
monkey monkeys that everyone passing was looking at
me.
monies, moneybags, moneyed, moneylender,
money moneylenders, moneylending, moneymaker, 2. The robbery occurred during the night
moneymaking and all the precious gems were stolen,
but the police arrested the thief. He
journey journeys, journeying, journeyed was filmed the previous day acting in
macaroni a suspicious manner as he was being
shown numerous pieces of jewellery.
taxi taxis, taxiing, taxied, taxicab, taxicabs
3. If kind means generous. If aspiring
quay quays, quayage, quayside means ambitious. If nosy means
frightener, frightening, frightful, frightfully, fright, curious. If jealous means envious.
frighten
frights If well-known means famous. If risky
closes, closing, closed, closer, closest, closely, means dangerous. If it is not even is it
close
closeness odious? If someone is furious are they
covered with fur?

-ious, -ous Unit 16
4. It was a marvellous 3. Across
party and the food 3. picture
was delicious, but not 7. anxious 7. serious, curious,
everyone had a fabulous 10. delicious precious, suspicious,
time as an enormous 12. enormous picture, close
argument broke out 13. conscious
between two men, and 15. ambitious 8. Word Search
various people tried to 18. tremendous
appease them. 19. numerous s u o l l e v r a m y r e t s y m
5. There was a tremendous 20. serious
o h j z i a d g y t o z u q u a y
turnout at the auction 21. envious
22. precious i t p g r c e s i f r i g h t e n
and we had an
ambitious target of Down y k y i r l l l e y j o u r n e y
€1000 to fundraise, 1. occurred b n o d r o i q y y e k n o m z s
which we surpassed, 2. famous c u g y y b c s u o r e m u n e u
thanks to a very 4. dangerous
s o c k a y i s u o i r e s e r o
generous lady who 5. marvellous
6. fabulous u c o s s u o m r o n e i m r u i
bought the picture for
€1200. 8. jealous o r n u e s u o r e n e g a v t c
9. generous i e s o l c s s u o m a f c o c e
11. suspicious c u c l c v e n v i o u s a u i r
14. various i t i a o c c u r r e d y r s p p
16. nervous
Answers p a o e f a b u l o u s i o k u c
17. curious
s x u j a n x i o u s o u n v j j
1. (a) curious
4. (a) famous u i s d a n g e r o u s k i h n h
(b) ambitious
(b) curious s a m b i t i o u s e c d h h g q
(c) fabulous
f e h t j s u o d n e m e r t w c
(d) marvellous (c) suspicious/
dangerous
(e) nervous
(d) delicious
(f) precious 9. (a) various
(e) precious
(g) envious (b) close
(f) serious
(h) famous (c) conscious
(g) enormous
(i) delicious (d) generous
(h) tremendous
(j) generous (e) delicious
(k) enormous (f) numerous
5. (a) anxious, conscious
(l) various (g) suspicious
(b) mystery, monkey
(m) serious (h) serious
(c) Various, macaroni
(n) numerous (i) enormous
(d) taxi, quay
(o) conscious
(e) enormous, money,
(p) jealous picture 10. ambitious, conscious,
dangerous, delicious,
2. (a) delicious enormous, fabulous,
6. (a) closely
(b) occurred frighten, generous,
(b) dangerously macaroni, numerous,
(c) precious (c) tremendously occurred, precious
(d) marvellous (d) seriously
(e) suspicious (e) curiously
(f) picture (f) jealously
(g) ambitiously
(h) anxiously
(i) suspiciously
(j) deliciously

Unit 17 -se, -ce, -o

chase chases, chasing, chased, chaser • This unit focuses on the graphemes ‘se’ and
‘ce’ to represent a sound and on words that
senses, sensing, sensed, senseless, senselessly,
sense end with a single ‘o’ and how each can be
senselessness, sensible, sensibly
made plural. This unit also includes two
release releases, releasing, released common, high frequency words, ‘multimedia’
greases, greasing, greased, greaser, greaseless, and ‘email’.
grease
greasy, greasier, greasiest
purchases, purchasing, purchased, purchaser, Teaching Points
purchase
purchasable, purchasability
increases, increasing, increased, increaser, • Identify the phoneme and how it is
increase represented.
increasable, increasingly
surface surfaces, surfacing, surfaced, surfaceless, surfacer • Discuss any difficult parts of words.
bounces, bouncing, bounced, bouncer, bouncy, • Discuss ways to make each word plural.
bounce • Sort the list words according to the graphemes
bouncier, bounciest
announces, announcing, announced, announcer, and brainstorm other words to add to each list.
announce
announcement
ambulance ambulances RULES
convinces, convincing, convinced, convincible, • When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel
convince
convincingly, convincement to most words ending with ‘e’, the ‘e’ is
fierce fiercer, fiercest, fiercely, fierceness dropped before adding the suffix.
tomato tomatoes • To make the plural of words ending with ‘y’
after a consonant, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and
fiasco fiascos add ‘es’.
potato potatoes • The ‘y’ at the end of base words changes to
piano pianos, pianism, pianissimo, pianist, pianoforte ‘i’ when a suffix is added. The ‘y’ is retained
when adding ‘ing’ to avoid ‘ii’.
echoes, echoing, echoed, echoer, echoless,
echo • Words ending with ‘o’ are made plural by
echolike, echoic
volcanos or volcanoes, volcanic, volcanically, adding ‘s’ or ‘es’. Both spellings of some
volcano words are now accepted.
volcanicity, volcanism, volcanologist
patio patios
Dictation
ratio ratios
1. As the waiter took my order for tomato soup
multimedia there was a loud scream from the kitchen – it
email emails, emailing, emailed turned out that the two chefs had began to
argue and chase each other but one had
slipped and fallen on spilt grease and had
electric, electrically, electricity, electronic, electrify, broken his ankle. As the echo of the sirens
electrical
electrified, electrifying from the ambulance resounded through the
person, persons, personable, personality, valley we left hungry.
personal
personalities, personally
2. The barbecue was a fiasco as the ratio of
astonish astonishes, astonishing, astonished, astonishingly people to burgers was three to one. There
nourishes, nourishing, nourished, nourisher, was not enough food apart from a baked
nourish
nourishment potato, so we just went for a bounce on the
break, breaks, broke, broken, breaking, breakable, trampoline and had a sing-a-long on the
breakage
breakability, breakdown patio.
drain, drains, draining, drained, drainer, drainable, 3. The purchase of the boat was so cheap,
drainage
drainpipe, drainpipes I did a big bounce followed by a leap.
friendships, friend, friends, friendly, friendlier, I dived through the surface where the sea is
friendship
friendliest, friendliness, unfriendly deep,
championships, champion, champions, But hit a big rock and landed in a heap.
championship
championing, championed 4. I shall announce your arrival at the door,
ninety nineties, ninetieth, ninetieths Then play the piano until my fingers are sore.
hundreds, hundredth, hundredths, hundredfold, I will convince them to dance only on the floor,
hundred But please go home early as you are such a
hundredweight, hundredweights
bore.

-se, -ce, -o Unit 17
5. I sent an email to Tom 3. Across 6. (a) multimedia,

asking which car I 7. ratio volcano
should purchase and 8. convince (b) grease, surface
he replied that it must 11. sense (c) personal, patio
have a multimedia 12. echo
centre and, as there (d) email, fiasco
13. grease
was a sense of urgency 15. patio
to order one before 16. ambulance 7. (a) multiplex
the price increase, the 18. announce (b) ambush
bank quickly arranged 20. tomato
the release of money. (c) drainpipe
21. release
I discovered the fierce Down (d) fiery
competitiveness 1. fierce (e) volatile
between all the retailers 2. email (f) pronounce
as I visited all the 3. purchase
showrooms but finally, 4. multimedia
I chose the Vento in 5. volcano 8. Word Search
a colour called red 6. surface
volcano. y c d y e s m o a m b u l a n c e
9. increase
10. fiasco g e f c o n v i n c e o u e j p p
14. potato p r h i m u l t i m e d i a o u u
15. piano w o c h a s e a z b v y n t e e r
17. bounce k v c s j s g r r d t t a p a w c
19. chase
l a c i r t c e l e r t o u s p h
Answers h n d o m s a o n l o a w m k q a
4. (a) surfaces, surfacing,
surfaced s n e c t k n i a m o i i t a z s
1. (a) release
i o z a a a n n e n n g p n l t e
(b) patio (b) grease, greases,
greased n u f g i l o s d o a y r y a c o
(c) convince o n e p a s a e s u c b e e a g r
(c) chase, chases,
(d) echo t c t m r e r n e r l b c f a j e
chasing
(e) potato s e y e r d z g n i o o r j e s l
(d) purchases,
(f) fierce purchasing, a j p c n p y l s s v u e e m t e
(g) grease purchased t u n u o d s b e h s n i l a j a
(h) ambulance (e) increase, increases, p i h s n o i p m a h c f x i c s
(i) ratio increased f r i e n d s h i p n e h j l u e
(j) piano (f) email, emailing,
emailed
(k) increase 9. (a) piano
(g) bounce, bounces,
(l) sense (b) hundred
bouncing
(c) potato
2. (a) ratio (d) email
5. (a) nourishment
(b) surface (e) sense
(b) fiercely
(c) email (f) personal
(c) sensitive
(d) purchase, chase
(d) expensive
(e) volcano 10. (a) fierce
(e) disgraceful
(f) tomato (b) nourish
(f) astonishment
(g) bouncy (c) sense
(h) announcement (d) breakage
(i) greasy (e) electrical
(f) personal

Unit 18 Summer

travellers, travel, travels, travelling, travelled, • This unit focuses on summer words.
traveller This unit also includes two common,
travelogue, travel-sick
high frequency words, ‘thousand’ and
cheque cheques, chequered, chequebook, chequebooks
‘double’.
exchanges, exchanging, exchanged, exchangeable,
exchange
exchangeability, exchangeably, exchanger
Teaching Points
luggage
• Identify difficult parts of words.
carousel carousels
• Discuss ways to remember how to spell
foreignly, foreignness, foreigner, foreigners, a word.
foreign
foreignism
• Brainstorm other words to add to each
hurricane hurricanes list.
tsunami tsunamis or tsunami
typhoon typhoons, typhonic Dictation
abroad 1. The disgruntled traveller.
A hurricane had started that very day,
heatwave heatwaves And a typhoon could be on the way.
humid, humidly, humidness, humidifier, humidify, The carousel was off so I had to carry my
humidity
humidifies, humidified, humidification, humidistat bag,
sultry sultrier, sultriest, sultrily, sultriness Then I lost my luggage as it had no tag.
I signed a cheque to exchange my
malaria malarial, malarian or malarious
money,
terminals, terminally, terminate, terminates, When all of a sudden I felt really funny.
terminal terminating, terminated, terminative, terminatory, Perspiration was running down my face,
termination As that malaria pill had kicked into place.
sweats, sweating, sweated, sweaty, sweatier, Going abroad can make your stress level
sweat
sweatiest, sweater, sweatshirt, sweatshop double,
centigrade So, no sweat, stay at home and save
yourself the trouble.
thermometer thermometers, thermometry When the thermometer reaches an
degree degrees, degreeless overbearing heat,
There are a thousand reasons to stay in
mosquito mosquitoes or mosquitos
your seat.
thousand thousands, thousandth, thousandths There are mosquitos even on the plane,
double doubles, doubling, doubled, doubleness, doubler And the oppressive humidity will drive
you insane.
Revision Words Word Building As for me – a foreign holiday is just the
octopus octopuses, octopi worst pain.
suitcase suitcases 2. We had to spend two nights in the airport
terminal until the tsunami had receded,
snorkel snorkels, snorkelling, snorkelled, snorkeller but the next day the sultry air had caused
oceans, oceanarium, oceanariums, oceanfront, a heatwave and the temperature reached
ocean oceangoing, oceanographer, oceanography, 30 degrees centigrade.
oceanic
pier piers
depth depths, deep, deeper, deepest, deepness
securities, secure, secures, securing, secured,
security securable, securely, securement, secureness,
securer
oxygenate, oxygenates, oxygenating, oxygenated,
oxygen
oxygenic
Australia Australian, Australians
Greece Greek, Greeks, Grecian, Grecians

Summer Unit 18
Answers
1. (a) malaria 7. (a) foreign 9. cheque
(b) security (b) heatwave
(c) Greece (c) carousel 10. (a) tsunami
(d) thousand (d) abroad (b) sweat or heatwave
(e) exchange (c) snorkel
2. (a) tsunami (f) humidity (d) mosquito
(b) double (g) terminal (e) abroad
(c) sultry (h) degree (f) thousand
(d) luggage (i) malaria (g) carousel
(e) hurricane (j) hurricane (h) sultry
(f) malaria (k) cheque
(l) thousand
3. Across (m) centigrade
2. sweat (n) traveller
6. thermometer
10. tsunami
11. sultry 8. Word Search
13. exchange
15. abroad d c k b
16. double c k y o
18. degree d o u b l e x
19. luggage h u m i d i t y o
20. carousel m a l a r i a l q g c
21. heatwave d g b i b u t e t r x e
Down o l f r g r n o k m v j
1. cheque G a e j o g e h p m g o m i
3. terminal r k x m a a t u u h y z s p u
4. humidity t e u c o d g e r s n d e g r e e
5. hurricane s s e e h v i e m r l a n i m r e t
7. thousand u n m c n a y o m o i y z q i i k r x w h
8. mosquito
A a o o e t n r j e m c q d t x f b x
9. foreign
s n s r i d u g d v s r a e j h o v s t m
12. traveller
s d q r k t g a e a n w e n f a v h w i j
14. centigrade
17. malaria g j u q m e r k w j m g q h e s m h k
22. typhoon q e c i v x g l k r k d s u l t r y i i
t e f t b i z l e r t a e w s h f n m
s q y o t z n e z q e z t u k o q a m
4. (a) humidity, foreign,
mosquito, abroad, n j p n n s o s e v m l j n r k n v v
traveller, sweat i e y x s o u v z t r l e t u x y t
c b g e c h o a d m y i e s z j k
(b) double
f h d h p r w n d g o t v k q
(c) Teacher check s j r i y a t a n m s e g a t
s u i t c a s e y v h r m
5. mosquito, sultry, c h e q u e u t
terminal, humidity, z j l h o e
sweat, carousel, d t h
suitcase, snorkel, ocean, w j t k m i
octopus h t p e d w r d
o c e a n e f y
6. Teacher check g w i z
p u p

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